Environment: Preview Testnet
Usage: Testing release candidates and mainnet releases. Leads mainnet hard forks by at least 4 weeks.
Ideally stays long running. Only if an issue is found after it forks that's breaking should it be respun.
Epoch length of 1 day. Development flags allowed in configuration files.
Upgrade Strategy:
- Release Candidates - 1/3 of nodes
- Official Releases - 2/3 of nodes
- Hard forks - all nodes
- Community requested to only deploy release candidates and official releases
Changes Requested by: Release Squad Lead
Approvals Required: SRE Tribe Lead, Cardano Head of Engineering, Cardano Head of Architecture
Responsible: IOG SRE
Accountable: Head of SRE/Release Squad Lead
Consulted: SPOs
Informed: Cardano Core Tribe, COO, Director of Engineering
Configuration files
Compatible with cardano-node release 8.9.2
NOTE:
The non-block-producer node config has `PeerSharing` enabled by
default, so should not be used with block-producers.
Additionally, avoid connecting a block-producer not using p2p to a p2p
PeerSharing enabled relay as the block-producer's IP will be leaked.